OnePlus Watch 2R: A Big Watch With Big Battery Life – Video

For the past two weeks, I’ve been wearing the one plus watch two r, the cheaper version of the smartwatch that one plus launched earlier this year. Here are my thoughts. So let me first break down the differences between the one plus watch two and the one plus watch too. There’s a lot that’s the same between these two devices. They have the same features, the same health tracking capabilities, the same internals. So what’s really different here is the design of the one plus watch two, it’s significantly lighter than the one plus watch two, it’s made of aluminum alloy instead of stainless steel, and the back cover is made of glass instead of sapphire crystal. Those are the main differences. And I have to say, even though this device is significantly lighter, it takes up just as much space on my wrist as the one plus watch too. But more on that later, I first want to talk about the things that I really liked about this watch. Battery life is definitely at the top of the list. I was able to comfortably use this watch for at least two days, usually 2.5 days, on a single charge. Of course, battery life will always depend on how you use the watch. I had the always-on display turned on, which usually eats away at the battery life, and there’s also a health tracking feature that looks for breathing issues while you sleep. And I still got over two days. So I’m really impressed with the battery life, and when you do have to charge it, it charges pretty quickly. After 20 minutes, it went from 10% to 56%. That felt like the perfect amount to me because if I’m going to quickly jump in the shower before I leave the house and want to charge my watch, you can get a significant amount of juice after just 20 minutes. I also really liked the auto pause feature during a workout. When I was running on the treadmill. Sometimes I would stop to check a notification on my phone or find another song on Spotify and almost immediately as soon as I stopped, I would get a little vibration on my wrist letting me know that the workout was paused, paused. I think it was only a little bit longer because my heart rate wasn’t that high yet. But it was still pretty quick. It was only a few seconds. Another thing that really surprised me about this watch was that I felt like the heart rate measurement was more accurate than the one plus watch two. That was weird because like I said, these watches have the same sensors and the same hardware. So I don’t know why it felt different to me. But when I was training with the one plus watch two R and I compared it to my chest strap, heart rate monitor on a bike workout, I felt like it was much more in line with what the chest strap was picking up. Now of course there’s always a discrepancy between the two heart rates. Chest straps are much more accurate, but I was impressed with the results. Now I want to tell you what I didn’t like about this watch. First of all, I still feel like it’s way too big for my wrist. So I measured my wrist with the tape measure and the diameter is 139 millimeters, which is about right where the one plus watch two hours is actually recommended for. According to the one plus website, it should fit wrists that measure 140 millimeters to 210 millimeters. But I still think this thing is just too big. It, it just really stands out. It makes it a little bit less comfortable to wear during a workout or when I’m going to sleep. And then I would like, I would rather wear something that’s a little bit tighter and lighter and I was really hoping that since OnePlus was also going to release another version of the watch, that they would make a smaller version. But we still haven’t seen that. I was also hoping to see a little bit more of the O health app, the app where you see all of your health stats, while it’s really easy to see all of your stats and your progress in this nice snapshot in the dashboard. There’s really nothing more to it than that. It doesn’t really show trends, it doesn’t give you advice based on your data. So this is O health and this is the Samsung health app and they’re pretty similar. They both have stats in the dashboard that you can look at. But in the Samsung app, if you go all the way down here, you can see more sleep coaching features and there’s also this energy score that gives you some tidbits about your daily state based on factors like sleep and activity from the previous day. So it really breaks those numbers down. And as you can see in Apple Health, there are a couple of highlights here that look at different metrics and different activities. Um and you know, it highlights some, some takeaways, like am I taking fewer steps than normal. Um What my headphone audio levels have been, how much I’ve walked and run throughout the year. These are all things that we’re seeing, other companies are starting to do like Apple and fitbit and Samsung. So I was really hoping that one plus would step it up a little bit and kind of match what other companies are doing. Plus a lot of my reservations about the one plus Watch two still apply to this watch, like the fact that it only gets two years of software updates and it also doesn’t have fall detection, which has become a safety feature in a lot of wearables. Overall, the one plus watch two R has a lot to offer for $230. It’s affordable compared to the $300. 1 plus watch as well. It also has really great battery life and a big screen. So if that’s what you care about most in a smartwatch, then you might really like this device. However, if you want deeper health insights and features like fall detection and something that just looks a little more like teeth on your wrist, then you’ll want to look elsewhere. Check out my full story for more details. Thanks for watching and until next time.